The B.C. Court of Appeal has reduced the sentences of three men convicted of trying to traffic more than 1,000 kilograms of the date rape drug ketamine that was smuggled into Canada.
The province’s highest court ruled that the trial judge was wrong to find that the three men – Yiu Tim Kwok, 62, Hin Cheung Lau, 46, and Wing Kee Ng, 62 – belonged to a criminal organization, earning them a longer sentence.
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Their camouflaged clothing wasn’t enough to get two accused drug smugglers across the border undetected last November.
Mounties just released details of charges laid against the men two months ago.
Victor Tyrone Peal, 39, from Bellingham, Washington, and Kyle Maurice Provo, 24, of Surrey, are each charged with importation and possession for the purpose of trafficking. Peal is also charged with possession of a restricted firearm with ammunition.
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A federal court has stopped a bid to deport an Italian-born Hells Angel from B.C., saying the government violated his rights by delaying the case for years.
Carlo Fabbiano, a 57-year-old member of the elite Nomads chapter of the B.C. gang, has lived in Canada since 1963.
He got involved in the Hells Angels in the 1990s, a recent Federal Court of Canada decision in his case noted.
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A gang associate wounded in a brazen restaurant shooting in January was ordered deported from Canada Wednesday because of his criminal history.
Nebojsa (Nick) Kljajic, 37, admitted through his lawyer Dennis McCrea that he was ineligible to remain in Canada because of his previous criminal convictions for conspiracy and trafficking marijuana.
Immigration and Refugee Board member Laura Ko ruled that Kljajic, who came to Canada from Croatia, is “inadmissible on grounds of organized criminality.”
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Two men are facing charges after 35 kilograms of heroin were found hidden in goods shipped through Vancouver International Airport.
A coordinated 18-month investigation involving RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime (FSOC), the Canada Border Services Agency and the Vancouver Police Department resulted in the arrests of Randy Norman Per, 42, and Tenny Guon Lim, 34.
Lim remains in custody, while Per has been released on $25,000 bail pending their next court appearance July 8.... Read More …

Two men have been charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking after police and border guards seized 35 kilograms (77 pounds) of heroin at Vancouver International Airport last month.
The arrests and seizure resulted from an 18-month investigation — a coordinated effort involving the RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime, the Canada Border Services Agency and the Vancouver Police Department — into drug smuggling from South Asia into Canada through YVR
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It was his tattoos that gave American Hells Angel fugitive Troy Andrew Scholder away.
An alert anti-gang cop noticed H-A-M-C across the fingers of his right hand, for Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, and D-A-G-O across the left, for the San Diego chapter.
Scholder, 33, was caught during a routine traffic stop near Langley’s Willowbrook mall on May 8.
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Gurmej Singh Gill says the British Babbar Khalsa group he founded had nothing to do with its namesakes in other countries like Canada that were linked to terrorism.
Testifying at an immigration hearing Wednesday, the now 71-year-old British citizen said while he remains a diehard supporter of the creation of a separate Sikh nation in India, he has never advocated violence in his 30-year-long campaign.
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A gang associate wounded in a brazen shooting Tuesday afternoon has an immigration hearing in February to see if he should be kicked out of Canada because of his criminality, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
Nebojsa (Nick) Kljajic, 37, was shot while sitting with others inside the Cactus Club restaurant on Kingsway.
RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said the shooting was targeted.
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A Metro Vancouver trucker caught with 30 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside his tractor-trailer as he crossed into Canada has been sentenced to eight and a half years in jail.
Navdeep Singh Dhillon was found guilty last May of importing a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking.
He was sentenced at the New Westminster Law Courts earlier this month, but the ruling was just released Wednesday.
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An Osoyoos man has been charged after allegedly selling dozens of smuggled firearms to gangsters in the Okanagan and Metro Vancouver.
Tyler Ryan Cuff, 30, is believed to have used his dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship to legally purchase Glocks and other handguns at various Washington State gun shows.
Cuff then allegedly smuggled the firearms into B.C. inside both a truck and car passing through the border crossing between Osoyoos and Oroville, Washington.
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A Metro Vancouver man is facing gun smuggling charges in Washington state after being arrested last week with four firearms hidden in his vehicle as he tried to re-enter Canada.
U.S. agents were watching Daniel James Walker on July 23 after he crossed into Washington at Sumas and visited two stores, purchasing all four guns with Washington identification that listed a fake in-state address.
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A Calgary gangster arrested at Vancouver airport last week was recently added to an indictment alleging his involvement in a United Nations gang plot to kill the Bacon brothers, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
Billy Ly was picked up by the Canada Border Services Agency after arriving on a flight from Asia. He is now in jail in Calgary charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon for a near-fatal stabbing of a rival ... Read More …

Two Surrey residents have been convicted of attempting to smuggle ecstasy to Australia through Vancouver Airport three years ago.
Nadine Fayann Prevost, 33, and Michel Andre Tremblay, 46, were found to have almost eight kilograms of ecstasy hidden under the false bottoms of three suitcases on April 9, 2010.
They claimed to have no knowledge of the drugs, which B.C. Supreme Court Justice Gregory Fitch rejected in convicting each of exporting a controlled substance.
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Lots more fascinating information was disclosed at the immigration hearing for alleged Asian gang boss Lai Tong Sang, who the Canadian government wants to deport.
Lai came to Canada with his family in October 1996 despite red flags being raised when he first applied to immigrate through the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong.
He withdrew the Hong Kong application after Canadian visa officer Jean-Paul Delisle gathered information about his links to organized crime. The problem ... Read More …

Evidence at Tuesday’s immigration hearing into the status of long-time Vancouver resident Lai Tong Sang showed the web of Asian triads operating in B.C.
Canadian Press was there for our newspaper and reported that Lai himself was not at the hearing because he was out of the country and listening in over the phone. His family was present as former Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit Insp. Pat Fogarty testified about how he first learned of ... Read More …

The Canada Border Services Agency has seized a record 14 tonnes of precursor chemicals in Prince Rupert.
The chemicals used to make ecstasy and GHB pills were found hidden in a shipment originating in China, and identified on the paperwork as glycerin.
When CBSA officers took a closer look at the 552 jugs, they found them to contain four precursor chemicals used to make methamphetamine, MDMA and gamma-butyrolactone.
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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has confirmed the man who shot CBSA agent Lori Bowcock fired on her directly before turning the gun on himself.
IHIT head Insp. Kevin Hackett identified the gunman as 32-year-old Andrew Michael Crews, of Bremerton. And he refuted an earlier report that Bowcock had been shot by accident with the bullet that passed through Crews’ head.
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Canada Border Services Agency officer Lori Bowcock was shot in the neck at the Peace Arch crossing Tuesday by a man driving a white van with Washington plates. Apparently the shooting was accidental as the man in the van shot himself in the head – the bullet passed through and struck Bowcock.
The CBSA finally confirmed that an officer had been wounded several hours after the shooting occurred at the busy border crossing.The Integrated Homicide ... Read More …